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Chinatown Bus These buses, created to carry Asians from one ethnic enclave to another, offer no frills and irregular schedules. But the price is hard to beat: fares start at $15 from Boston to New York City and $20 from Los Angeles to Las Vegas...
...belief system based on the premise that the myriad ingredients in whole plant parts cancel out the side effects of the "drug" in the plant. And many drugs do come from plants. The classic example is digitalis leaf. The foxglove plant contains a chemical, digitalis, that can regulate an irregular heartbeat. Digitalis, the purified chemical, has many well-known side effects, while whole foxglove leaf, say the naturopaths, does not produce these side effects because the other ingredients in the leaf "cancel" them out. Is this really true? I've got my doubts; I have treated a few patients...
...Naturopathy says that sick animals have an instinctual knowledge of what plants to eat to make them better. Is this true? I have seen dogs eat grass and vomit. There was no package insert to warn them!) Perhaps it was only the bunnies and deer with irregular heartbeats that ate all that foxglove in my wife's garden but again, I doubt it. It's confusing, but this I know: when they're really sick, the naturopaths, the homeopaths, the osteopaths, chiropractors and acupuncturists - they all come to us. Even my dog slouches over and puts his head...
...fighting a standard war now; with Hamas and Hizballah, it is battling against cells of well-trained militias energized by religious fervor. Armies surrender when their leaders tell them to; guerrillas just slip back to a safe house and wait to fight another day. Worse, today's irregular foes live in villages, hide in houses and are sheltered by civilians (or force civilians to shelter them...
...Further along at No. 37 is Le Vestiaire, tel: (32-2) 474 601 490; le-vestiaire.com, a workshop and showroom for the quirky casual wear of Caroline Foulon, Val?rie Berckmans and Daniel Henry; and C?line Collard, who uses irregular-cut necklines, funky buttons and ruched sleeves to create T shirts a cut above the ordinary...